The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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