I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut 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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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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