There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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