There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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