Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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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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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 small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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