No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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.
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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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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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