Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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