Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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When 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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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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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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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