There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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