When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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