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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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.
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