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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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