Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPassionate 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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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