Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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