I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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 am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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