Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch 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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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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