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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEHe should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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