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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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