There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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