Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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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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