Why 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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