But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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