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21 " 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. "
― Anthony Trollope , Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)
22 " Home to your own people. How nice! I have no people to go to. I have one sister, who lives with her husband at Riga. She is my only relation, and I never see her. "
23 " And you know, aunt, I still hope that I shall be found to have kept on the right side of the posts. You will find that poor Lord Chiltern is not so black as he is painted.’ ‘But why take anybody that is black at all?’ ‘I like a little shade in the picture, aunt. "
24 " He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs, "
25 " I doubt whether an old man should ever live in England if he can help it. "
26 " it is natural that the father should yearn for the son, while the son's feeling for the father is of a very much weaker nature. "
27 " It is not so in the United States. There the same political enmity exists, but the political enmity produces private hatred. "
28 " Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it?—and that this is specially true of a man's own self? "
29 " He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes. "
30 " There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. "
31 " A woman who is alone in the world is ever regarded with suspicion. "
32 " Matrimony never seemed to me to be very charming, and upon my word it does not become more alluring by what I find at Loughlinter. "
33 " Lord Chiltern Rides His Horse Bonebreaker "
34 " When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom. "
35 " 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. "