Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Of 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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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