It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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