Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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