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.
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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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