Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
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.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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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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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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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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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