Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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