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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The 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.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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