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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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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 who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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