I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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