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 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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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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 chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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