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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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