Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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 nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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