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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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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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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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