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 TROLLOPEBut mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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