Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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