No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Words 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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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