When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. Anthony Trollope More Quotes by Anthony Trollope More Quotes From Anthony Trollope My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere. Anthony Trollope my-sweetheart hemisphere sweetheart I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. Anthony Trollope fifth-avenue new-york thinking I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views. Anthony Trollope views believe thinking Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. Anthony Trollope absence spring needs Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. Anthony Trollope doctors country book People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better. Anthony Trollope romance people thinking 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. Anthony Trollope honesty doe hands 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? Anthony Trollope autumn office doe When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer. Anthony Trollope voice together people Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them. Anthony Trollope rap dark believe We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children. Anthony Trollope preparation believe children 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. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy. Anthony Trollope names men boys There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people. Anthony Trollope strong feelings people Never mingle love and business. Anthony Trollope love Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. Anthony Trollope knowing missing giving There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned. Anthony Trollope may order lying A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds. Anthony Trollope money forget men Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. Anthony Trollope literature oxford men I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. Anthony Trollope castles ambition literature It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. Anthony Trollope advertising literature may
