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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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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.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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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.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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