A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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