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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECaveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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