I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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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.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Travel 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.
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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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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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