But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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