Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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