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What 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.

Anthony Trollope

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

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
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Clever Conscience Genius Good Great Many Minister One Prime Thing Want
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Book Chief Need Readable
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Connect Dog Fencing Himself Little Simply Small Smart Uncomfortable
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Man More Much Partisan Patrick Politics Side Some Think Unless Well Will
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Believe Foreigner Ourselves Possible Respect Wiser
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Cham Down One Only Peg Screw Thing
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Came Country Dishonest Proven Stony Worst
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Dose Poison Small Success Taken
But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Die Ever Fact Known Mad Man never Nothing Trouble Well
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Adequate Could Indeed Ladder Life Men might Perfection Picture True
He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Always Brood Court Drop Feeling Heart Hour Injured Own Plead Successfully

What 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.

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What 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.

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