People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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?
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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