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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.

Anthony Trollope

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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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All Attempt City Country Fall Foreign Great Grievously Most Short Taken Thing Together Unsatisfactory
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Hard Listen Man Necessity Nothing Say
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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Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
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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Great Hidden Jeep Nom Golly One Sorrow
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Bond Giant Little Man Packthread Right Rule
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Himself Man Much No Nothing Think
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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Affair Always Any Hedge Horse Look Man Prominent Steal
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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Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
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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Circumstance Declare Dependent Duration Matter Nature Seem Simple Such Trail Understood
A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Apasmodiac Daily Dainty Hercules Labour Really Stone Task
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Compleleld Driven Emergency Gradually Itself Man Mind Refuse Until
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Another Catch Done Hear never Presence Salmon Some Achievement
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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Admire Always Arch Beauty Life Master Neck Prance Showy Work
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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Allegiance Direction Have Married Once Own Regard Sex Thrown Treacherous Women
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Doubt Girl Knew Lover Mind Satisfy Whether Whole
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing

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