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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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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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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