Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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