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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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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.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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