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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

Anthony Trollope

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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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Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Change Content Divine Human Hurry Lower Sink Something Test
What is there that money will not do?
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Do Money There Will
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Chance Direction Forward Girl Good Husband Little Man Taste
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Bless Great Happy Raed While
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool
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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Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
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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Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Charm Double Down Life Oneself Opponent Pill Pleasure Politician Raise
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
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Boast Himself Least Let Man May Peril Seventh Through
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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All Ambition Earth Enterprise Grand Important Parent Rise Salt Thing World
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
A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Before Behind Break Curb Farmer Go Horse Lame never Throw Until
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
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

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