Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf 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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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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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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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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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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