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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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