There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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