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 TROLLOPEOne 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.
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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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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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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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