Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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.
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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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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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