I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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