Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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