A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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