There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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