The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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