Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople 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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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