Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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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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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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