But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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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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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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