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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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