A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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