It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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