Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Any 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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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They 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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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