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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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