I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of 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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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