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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThose who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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