They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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