They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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