I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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This 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.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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