Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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. . .
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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 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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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