Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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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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