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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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 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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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