What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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This 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.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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