The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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