I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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