I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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