I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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In 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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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