No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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 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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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What is there that money will not do?
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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