The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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.
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A 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.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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