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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.

Anthony Trollope

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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Above All Else Enough Good never Think
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Brave Certainty Credit Favor Fortune Give Most Themselves Unlimited World
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Deceive Else Men No One Succeed Themselves
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Bond Giant Little Man Packthread Right Rule
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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Connect Dog Fencing Himself Little Simply Small Smart Uncomfortable
But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Die Ever Fact Known Mad Man never Nothing Trouble Well
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Him Illness Important Man Nothing Own
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool
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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Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Good Himself Hold Low Man Nobody Opinion

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