A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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