A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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