Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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