Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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 never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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