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?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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