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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Why 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.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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