Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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