Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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