But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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