If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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