I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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