The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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