Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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