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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.

Anthony Trollope

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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Deceive Else Men No One Succeed Themselves
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Change Himself Man Suit Think Wife

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