But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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 such a difference between life and theory.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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