If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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