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.
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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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