Anthony Trollope Zitate auf Englisch

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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

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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 do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

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When men think much, they can rarely decide.

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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

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Life is so unlike theory.

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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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They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

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Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

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