A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel 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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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