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. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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