Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIs 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?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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