A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWe cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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