A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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Whom 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?
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