If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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.
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