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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

Anthony Trollope

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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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Already Being Bosom Give Mother Nature Nurse Nursing People Person Power Use
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Even False Known Man Resist Thought Woman Word
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Cigar Consume Dlow Drink Free Hour Lamp Late Midnight Moctunal Pleasurable Quickly Through Youth
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Anything Do Government Knew never Want
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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Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Describe Description Doubt Ever Gavem Idea Place Scenery
There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Between Differences Life Such Theory
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
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Advertise Anything Become Certainty Now Sell Sufficient
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Man More Much Partisan Patrick Politics Side Some Think Unless Well Will
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Being Bloodthirsty Philanthropist Profesional Sometimes Through Venomous
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Atone Birth Low Me Money Neither Position
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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Brightest Corner Eye House Lamp Ligh Sparkle Special Thing
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Clever Conscience Genius Good Great Many Minister One Prime Thing Want
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Enough Good Man never Think

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