Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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 happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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