Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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