The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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