The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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