Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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