Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELike his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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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 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.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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