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The gondola of London [A hansom].
Topic: Livery
Source: Lothair (ch. XXVII), H. Schutz Wilson in "Three Paths" claims to have originated the phrase (1759)
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London is a roost for every bird.
Topic: London
Source: Lothair (ch. XI)
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Topic: Manners
Source: None
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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There is moderation even in excess.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Topic: Mystery
Source: None
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Topic: Mystery
Source: None
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Topic: Patience
Source: Contarini Fleming (pt. IV, ch. 5)
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He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
Topic: Posterity
Source: Speech
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Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach
posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
Topic: Posterity
Source: Speech
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Topic: Public Speaking
Source: None
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All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise;
that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must
exist.
Topic: Public Trust
Source: Vivian Grey (bk. VI, ch. VII)
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Topic: Purpose
Source: None
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
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The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Topic: Race
Source: None
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Silence is the mother of Truth.
Topic: Silence
Source: Tancred (bk. IV, ch. IV)
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Topic: Statistics
Source: None
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Success is the child of audacity.
Topic: Success
Source: None
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Topic: Success
Source: None
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
Topic: Tact
Source: None
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A person's fate is their own temper.
Topic: Temperment
Source: None
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Topic: Time
Source: None
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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Little things affect little minds.
Topic: Trifles
Source: None
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Topic: Value
Source: None
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Topic: Voice
Source: None
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Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Topic: Worry
Source: None
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Topic: Youth
Source: None
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