Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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 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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