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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion.
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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
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In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party but the system has now gone out of vogue.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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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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It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
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It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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