There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERomance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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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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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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