Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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