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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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