When men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWe cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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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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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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