Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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