If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing 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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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