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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEquality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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 a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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