Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Let 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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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 run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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