Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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 small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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What is there that money will not do?
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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