The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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