There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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