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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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