It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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