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.
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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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