But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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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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What is there that money will not do?
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