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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

Anthony Trollope

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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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Boast Himself Least Let Man May Peril Seventh Through
For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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