But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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