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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMany people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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