After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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 no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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