Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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