There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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