Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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