But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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