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101 " I suspected what was the matter readily enough. But it is a maxim of mine that men (being superior creatures) are bound to improve women — if they can. When a woman wants me to do anything (my daughter, or not, it doesn’t matter), I always insist on knowing why. The oftener you make them rummage their own minds for a reason, the more manageable you will find them in all the relations of life. It isn’t their fault (poor wretches!) that they act first and think afterwards; it’s the fault of the fools who humour them. "
― Wilkie Collins , The Moonstone
102 " Nothing in this world, Betteredge, is probable unless it appeals to our own trumpery experience; and we only believe in a romance when we see it in a newspaper. "
103 " When things are at the worst, they’re sure to mend. Things can’t be much worse, Mr. Franklin, than they are now. "
104 " But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. "
105 " Cuando yo sentía necesidad de dirigirme escaleras arriba, he aquí que mi esposa descendía por ella, o bien, cuando ella sentía necesidad de bajar, he aquí que yo ascendía. En eso consiste la vida matrimonial, según mi experiencia. "
106 " The past and present rose side by side, at that supreme moment — and the contrast shook me. "
107 " Ha, Mr. Betteredge, the day is not far off when the poor will rise against the rich. I pray Heaven they may begin with him. I pray Heaven they may begin with him. "
108 " Its title was, "A Word With You On Your Cap-Ribbons." "My "
109 " Many men, many opinions, as one of the ancients said, before my time. "
110 " Nada hay en este mundo, Betteredge, que se aparezca como una cosa probable, si no logramos vincularla con nuestra engañosa experiencia, y sólo creemos en lo novelesco cuando se halla estampado en letras de molde. "
111 " I think it will end here. When I can bear it no longer, I think it will end here. "
112 " ¡Gracias a Dios soy yo un ser que reacciona orgánicamente por encima de la razón! (...) Aprovéchense, mis buenos amigos, se lo ruego, de este ejemplo. Se evitarán así muchas molestias enojosas. Cultiven la supremacía de los sentimientos sobre la razón y verán entonces cómo le cortan las garras a todo ser cuerdo que intente arañarlos, por el propio bien de ustedes. "
113 " If you are as tired of reading this narrative as I am of writing it—Lord, how we shall enjoy ourselves on both sides a few pages further on! "
114 " Mi devoto amor por la verdad se halla, gracias a Dios, muy por encima de mi respeto por las personas. "
115 " But, there! - Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. "