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.
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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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