Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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 are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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