There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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What is there that money will not do?
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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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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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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