I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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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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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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