My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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