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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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 secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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