Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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