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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

Anthony Trollope

The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Ambition Compatible Home Muse Passage People Person Reader Surprise Unknown
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Doubt Fashion Life Measure Men Place Politics Public Say
Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Car Down Hour Love Mind Quite Railway Same Travel Woman
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary
If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Between Cook Made Make Soup Two Seven Week
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Man More Much Partisan Patrick Politics Side Some Think Unless Well Will
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Brightest Corner Eye House Lamp Ligh Sparkle Special Thing
I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Adequate Could Indeed Ladder Life Men might Perfection Picture True
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

All Attempt City Country Fall Foreign Great Grievously Most Short Taken Thing Together Unsatisfactory
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Many More Much People Talk
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Can Jug One Only Pour

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