Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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