It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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