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 TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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One 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.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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The 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.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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