The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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