Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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