A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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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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