The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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