After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWords 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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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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