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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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