Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPassionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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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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