Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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