I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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