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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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When 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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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