A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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