I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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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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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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