Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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