If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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