Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy 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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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 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.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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