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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

Anthony Trollope

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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Claim Evidence Follies Once Out Point Special Such Wisdom
I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Anything Do Government Knew never Want
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Good Himself Hold Low Man Nobody Opinion
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Hideous Picture Portable Poverty Rural Suburban
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Compleleld Driven Emergency Gradually Itself Man Mind Refuse Until
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Brightest Corner Eye House Lamp Ligh Sparkle Special Thing
It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Country Intensely Location No Other Place
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Before Coward Men Tyrants Until Women
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Doubt Fashion Life Measure Men Place Politics Public Say
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Comfortable Feeling Ground Know Stand
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Acquirement Art Cut Learn No Road Royal Short
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Man More Much Partisan Patrick Politics Side Some Think Unless Well Will
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Many More Much People Talk

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