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 TROLLOPEPoverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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