Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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