Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat is there that money will not do?
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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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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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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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