In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Like 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.
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What is there that money will not do?
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