But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhom 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?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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