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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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A 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.
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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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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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. . .
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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 mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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