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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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