I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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