I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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