Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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