Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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