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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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