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 TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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