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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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