A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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