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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.

Anthony Trollope

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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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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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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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