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.
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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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What 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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