A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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 circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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