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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat 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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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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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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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