The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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