I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIs 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 men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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 nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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