I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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