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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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