There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering 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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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