Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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