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 TROLLOPEThere are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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