When men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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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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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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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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