Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen 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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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