Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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