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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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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Certainty Congregate Ebit May Men Number One Ten Through Women
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Another Catch Done Hear never Presence Salmon Some Achievement
It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Folly Great Hidden Keep No Sorrow
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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