A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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