A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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