Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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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.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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