Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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