I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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. . .
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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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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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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