When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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