Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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 circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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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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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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