I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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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 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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