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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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 are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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What is there that money will not do?
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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