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.
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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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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