But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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