Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIs 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?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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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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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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