They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAbove all else, never think you’re not good enough.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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. . .
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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