There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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 doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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