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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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