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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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