But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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