Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERomance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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