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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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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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