The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWords spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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