I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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 who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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 habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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