What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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