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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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