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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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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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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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