I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhom 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?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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