I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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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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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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