What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEquality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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What is there that money will not do?
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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