The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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 best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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