What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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