Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
From Anthony Trollope
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.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
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