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When men think much, they can rarely decide.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? ... Was ever anything so civil?

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION

She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous - but not without a conscience.

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend!

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times.

Now, Justinia, you are unfair.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes.

It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.

Book love ... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

It was Mr. Gotobed, who had just returned from a visit which he had made, the circumstances of which must be narrated in the next chapter. The

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

CHAPTER LXXI 'MY OWN, OWN HUSBAND

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Mrs Grantly after her father's death. This matter, therefore, had been taken out of the warden's hands

CHAPTER LVII MRS. MORTON RETURNS

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

E ate so much that he became too fat to see to eat his vittels.

Short accounts make long friends.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.

CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL

Lord Chiltern Rides His Horse Bonebreaker

He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs,

CHAPTER XLI THE SENATOR IS BADLY TREATED

And so he walked on from day to day studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

I like everything old-fashioned," said Eleanor; "old-fashioned things are so much the honestest.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

CHAPTER LXI THE SUCCESS OF LADY AUGUSTUS

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

CHAPTER LXX AT LAST

Such was the beauty of the landscape, that a lover of scenery would be tempted thus to lose himself.

All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it.

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.

After all, then, she was not a clever woman, - not more clever than other women around her!

If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other. I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam.

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

CHAPTER XLII MR. MAINWARING'S LITTLE DINNER

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, - never reached but always coming.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no. How

CHAPTER LXXII 'BID HIM BE A MAN

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.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything...

In life I've rung all changes through,
Run every pleasure down,
'Midst each excess of folly too,
And lived with half the town.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old. She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements.

CHAPTER LVIII THE TWO OLD LADIES

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

As he cared no longer for the light that lies in a lady's eye, there was not much left to him in the world but cards and racing.

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.

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

A sermon is not to tell you what you are, but what you ought to be, and a novel should tell you not what you are to get, but what you'd like to get.