Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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