A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELike 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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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