Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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 royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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