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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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