A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Let 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.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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