It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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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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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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