Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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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 have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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