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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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