A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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