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One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract. (Anthony Trollope)
As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives. View quote
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There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned. View quote
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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. View quote
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - 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. View quote
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Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. View quote
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A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife. View quote
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To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged is a man's delight to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's. View quote
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She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . . View quote
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Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last. View quote
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Had some inscrutable decree of fate ordained and made it certain, with a certainty not to be disturbed, that no candidate could be returned to Parliament who would not assert the earth to be triangular, there would rise immediately a clamorous assertion of triangularity among political aspirants. The test would be innocent. Candidates have swallowed, and daily do swallow, many a worse one. As might be this doctrine of a great triangle, so is the doctrine of Home Rule. Why is a gentleman of property to be kept out in the cold by some O'Mullins because he will not mutter an unmeaning shibboleth? "Triangular? Yes, or lozenge-shaped, if you please; but, gentleman, I am the man for Tipperary." (Anthony Trollope)
Aid from heaven you may have," he said, "by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. View quote
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It is a remarkable thing with reference to men who are distressed for money... they never seem at a loss for small sums, or deny themselves those luxuries which small sums purchase. Cabs, dinners, wine, theatres, and new gloves are always at the command of men who are drowned in pecuniary embarrassments, whereas those who don't owe a shilling are so frequently obliged to go without them! View quote
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it. View quote
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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. View quote
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What is there that money will not do? View quote
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They 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. View quote
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. View quote
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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. (Anthony Trollope)
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. View quote
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. View quote
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