Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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