A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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