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.
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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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