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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

Anthony Trollope

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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
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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Career Encounter Fail Great Honor Look Maymshall Reputation Risk
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Comfortable Feeling Ground Know Stand
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Enjoyment Flatter Greedy Learn Men Patriotism Pleasant Power Quick Require Themselves
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Him Illness Important Man Nothing Own
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Connect Dog Fencing Himself Little Simply Small Smart Uncomfortable
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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Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Certainty Congregate Ebit May Men Number One Ten Through Women
A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Apasmodiac Daily Dainty Hercules Labour Really Stone Task
Beware of creating tedium!
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Beware Create Tedium
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Believe Foreigner Ourselves Possible Respect Wiser
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Country Intensely Location No Other Place
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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Esteem Long Love Lst Much Passionate Rarely Troublesome Valuable Very
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Clearly Come Habot Himself Msecvem Critic Soon Write Writer
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Brightest Corner Eye House Lamp Ligh Sparkle Special Thing

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