People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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 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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