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.
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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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