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.
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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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