And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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