Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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