No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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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.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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