It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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The 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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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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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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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