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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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 concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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