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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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