But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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