Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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