The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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