Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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