After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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