We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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