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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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