There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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What is there that money will not do?
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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