If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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