It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
From Anthony Trollope
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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