A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECaveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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