But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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