Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMany people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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