When men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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