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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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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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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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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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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.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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