A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWords 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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