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.
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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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