Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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