Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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