There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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