Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The 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.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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