But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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