If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMany people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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