The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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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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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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