Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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