There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing 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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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