Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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