The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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