Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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