There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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