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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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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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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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 doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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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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