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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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It 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.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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