Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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