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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.

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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

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Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

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