A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet 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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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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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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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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