Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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 habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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