Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIn 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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