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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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.
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