Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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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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