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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It 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.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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