I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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