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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAbove all else, never think you’re not good enough.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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