There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Never 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.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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