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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThree hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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