Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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