That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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 hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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