We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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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Such 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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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What is there that money will not do?
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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