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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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The 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.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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