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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Beware of creating tedium!
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