I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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