When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPower 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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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