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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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