Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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