We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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