Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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 can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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