Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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It 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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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