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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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