When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford 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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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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