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.
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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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