If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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