The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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What is there that money will not do?
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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