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?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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