Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis 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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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 daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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The 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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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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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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