Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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