Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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