Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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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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