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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPoverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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