Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPower is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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