People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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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.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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