I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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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.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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