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.
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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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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 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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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