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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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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.
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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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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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