Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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