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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
What is there that money will not do?
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