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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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