If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWe cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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