I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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