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.
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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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