Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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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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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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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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