I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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