# Quote — Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

> Men are so seldom really good. They are so little sympathetic. 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.

- Author: [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md)
- Book: [Phineas Redux](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux.md)
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> No doubt there were other first cousins as badly off, or perhaps worse, as to whom the Duchess would care nothing whether they were rich or poor, — married or single; but then they were first cousins who had not had the advantage of interesting the Duchess.

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> “Isn‘t there some trouble about money?”
>
> “They wouldn‘t be very rich, Duchess.”
>
> “What a blessing for them! But then, perhaps, they‘d be very poor.”
>
> “They would be rather poor.”
>
> “Which is not a blessing.”

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> The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

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