Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Of 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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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