People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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