We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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