A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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What 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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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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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