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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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