There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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