Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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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 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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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