The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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