When men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECaveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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