Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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