It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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 no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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