I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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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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What is there that money will not do?
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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