Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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