But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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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.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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