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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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