What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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