Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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 feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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