Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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