Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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When 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.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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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 run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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