Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWords spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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