But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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