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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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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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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 man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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