Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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