Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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