My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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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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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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