No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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