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.
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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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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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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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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 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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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 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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