A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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.
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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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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?
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