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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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