Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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