If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELate hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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 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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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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 am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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