There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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