Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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 doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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