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A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each...
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake...
To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers...
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being...
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a...
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...
Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with...
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
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But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for...
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Source: Romola, ch....