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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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 feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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