It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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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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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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