Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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