Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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