Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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 sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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