Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIn these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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