Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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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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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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