A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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