Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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