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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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 man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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