Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Beware of creating tedium!
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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