There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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. . .
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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