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 TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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