Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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What is there that money will not do?
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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