A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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What is there that money will not do?
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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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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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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