Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?
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Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success.
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The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; 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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She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.
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It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.
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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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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
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She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
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I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, - and always to plead it successfully.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!