Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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