I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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