Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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