For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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. . .
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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