I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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 human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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