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 TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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