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 TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
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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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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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