A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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What 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.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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