The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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 is there that money will not do?
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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