The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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