The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut 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 TROLLOPEI never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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