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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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