He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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