Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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