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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

Anthony Trollope

Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Create Equal God Make Man Morrow Shall Unequal
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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Creeper Delicate Found Grow Parasite Plant Prosper Stroke Tower
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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Clever Conscience Genius Good Great Many Minister One Prime Thing Want
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Circumstance Declare Dependent Duration Matter Nature Seem Simple Such Trail Understood
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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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Another Catch Done Hear never Presence Salmon Some Achievement
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Even False Known Man Resist Thought Woman Word
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Also Easily No Way Well Write
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Best God Provide Thankful Use
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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Character Charity Consider Discuss Given Much Other Spirit Structure
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Before Behind Break Curb Farmer Go Horse Lame never Throw Until
I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Disobey Drop Force Hollow Law Nothing Potent Stone Surely Water
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Brightest Corner Eye House Lamp Ligh Sparkle Special Thing
Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Attorney Common Every Exactly General Give Opposite Remarkable Repute

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