Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in 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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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