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 TROLLOPEIt has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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