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.
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 never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Such 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.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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