The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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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 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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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