We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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