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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.”

Anthony Trollope

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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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“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.”

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Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm…

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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

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