If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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