But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford 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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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