Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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