He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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 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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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