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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.

Anthony Trollope

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Beware of creating tedium!
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Beware Create Tedium
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Attain Could Equality Heaven
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Bliss Equal Hour Human Six Work
Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Create Equal God Make Man Morrow Shall Unequal
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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Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
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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Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
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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Esteem Long Love Lst Much Passionate Rarely Troublesome Valuable Very
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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Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
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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Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Child Obey Ought Ready Reason
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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End English Except Happiness Love Novel
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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Admit Apparent Awe Driven God Inequality Injustice Mind Struct Thinkerm Student
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Afford Any Love Luxury Other Right Unless
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Cloven Cunning Devil Drink Grow Hide Honest Hoof Lose Sober
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool
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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Already Being Bosom Give Mother Nature Nurse Nursing People Person Power Use

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