Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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 you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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