And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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