A man desires to win a virgin heart, and is happy to know,—or at least to believe,—that he has won it. With a woman every former rival is an added victim to the wheels of the triumphant chariot in which she is sitting.
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope
"Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?"
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope
You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached to himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men and women upon earth.
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope
There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope
"Let's have another bottle of 'cham,'" said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. "'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg."
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope
Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope
Men who think much want to speak often.
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope
"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
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Phineas Finn by
Anthony Trollope