Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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