I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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 way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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