High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
From Anthony Trollope
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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