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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.

Anthony Trollope

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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Attorney Existence Most Own Riugish Suppose Trust
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Daily Hercules Labor Really Small Spasmodic Task
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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Character Charity Consider Discuss Given Much Other Spirit Structure
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Before Coward Men Tyrants Until Women
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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 have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Being Bloodthirsty Philanthropist Profesional Sometimes Through Venomous
Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Console Establish Generally Grievance Man Noting Perhaps Well
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate

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