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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

Anthony Trollope

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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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Create Equal God Make Man Morrow Shall Unequal
The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Carry Chance Disposal Favour Long Mean More Perhaps Shall Success
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Afford Any Love Luxury Other Right Unless
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Man More Much Partisan Patrick Politics Side Some Think Unless Well Will
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Atone Birth Low Me Money Neither Position
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Compleleld Driven Emergency Gradually Itself Man Mind Refuse Until
Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Car Down Hour Love Mind Quite Railway Same Travel Woman
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Can Jug One Only Pour
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Chatter Down Hold Insignificant Put Those Wish World
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Hideous Picture Portable Poverty Rural Suburban
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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Child Obey Ought Ready Reason
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
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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Esteem Long Love Lst Much Passionate Rarely Troublesome Valuable Very
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Best Good Practice Rule Scholar School Training Turn
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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Change Content Divine Human Hurry Lower Sink Something Test
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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Cause Disturbance Man Married People Suppose
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Anything Do Government Knew never Want
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Cigar Consume Dlow Drink Free Hour Lamp Late Midnight Moctunal Pleasurable Quickly Through Youth
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Gentlemen More Much Nobleman
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Cloven Cunning Devil Drink Grow Hide Honest Hoof Lose Sober
It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Death Gone Last Live Long Other Pleasure Recreation Support
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary
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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Character Charity Consider Discuss Given Much Other Spirit Structure
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Bond Giant Little Man Packthread Right Rule
A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Before Behind Break Curb Farmer Go Horse Lame never Throw Until

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