Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEHe should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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