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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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