No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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 farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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