I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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