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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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 hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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