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.
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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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