But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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 habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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