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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Anthony Trollope

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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Himself Man Much No Nothing Think
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
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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Already Being Bosom Give Mother Nature Nurse Nursing People Person Power Use
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Being Bloodthirsty Philanthropist Profesional Sometimes Through Venomous
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Cloven Cunning Devil Drink Grow Hide Honest Hoof Lose Sober
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Hideous Picture Portable Poverty Rural Suburban
A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Compleleld Driven Emergency Gradually Itself Man Mind Refuse Until
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Enough Good Man never Think
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Atlantic Before Country Cross Fall Invariably Journey Love Over Woman
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Bliss Equal Hour Human Six Work
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such

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