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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Anthony Trollope

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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 small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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