A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat 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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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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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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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