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“We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.”

Ifs Should Believe Special Evidence Claims Folly Wiser Foreigners

Author:Anthony Trollope

“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.”

Should Wells Made Book Country Reader Doctors Following Profession Medical Tales Chiefs Modest Neighbour Locality

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“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.”

World Should Believe Children Used Next This World Theory Cold Our Children Preparation Relish

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.”

Should Sex Married Rate Thrown Allegiance One Direction Treacherous

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.”

Ifs Should May Devil Accidents Noble Honestly Possessed Stains

Book:Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

Source: Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

“Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.”

Thinking Men Should Wells May Sides Comfort Division Patriot Equity Partisans Crumbs

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.”

Should Would Be Lord Blessing Pity Thrown Great Happiness Grievance

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.”

Should Might Enemy Persecuted

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear”

World Should Book Common Tears Hero

Book:Framley parsonage

Source: Framley parsonage

“If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.”

Ifs Should Wish Treats Reverence

Book:Thackeray

Source: Thackeray

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.”

Should Looks Persons Purpose Asks Interest Mystery Goes On You Choose Disclosure Chronicles

Book:Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

Source: Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

“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.”

Source: The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

“That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.”

Should Mind Soul Self States Girl Sex Poor Money Marriage Treats Sells Income Bread Titles Farmers Sheep Diamond Estates Lowest Inner Self Degradation That Girl Oxen

Book:Framley parsonage

Source: Framley parsonage

“The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.”

Men Should Law Speak Poor Duty Weak Guides Great Things Honour Tyrants Nobility Between You And Me

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.”

Thinking Should Law Amount Lawyer Coffee Loyalty Convince Clients Eloquence Orators Grocers

Book:Orley farm

Source: Orley farm

“When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.”

Ifs World Should Practice Wise Society Prejudice Fixed

Book:The Belton Estate

Source: The Belton Estate

“I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.”

Ifs Thinking Should Fields Ready Fit Angel Grass Thrown Atoms Afterlife Burned Should I Worms Pits Archangel

Book:The Letters of Anthony Trollope

Source: The Letters of Anthony Trollope

“Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.”

Should Taken Late Poison Dose

Author:Anthony Trollope

“A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles; the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand has been made more precious by the touch of gold”

Knows Should Looks Has Beens Made Hands Lasts Moving Left Taken Gold Muscles Friendly Physicians Fees Facial Left Hand

Author:Anthony Trollope

“It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking”

Thinking Should Has Beens Hard Young Solitude Delight Execution Schemes

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.”

Should Young Speak Impossible Style Praise Dare Novelists Defiance Dickens

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.”

Should Literature Poverty Misery Hideous Picturesque

Book:The Macdermots of Ballycloran: Trollope's Works

Source: The Macdermots of Ballycloran: Trollope's Works

“There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.”

Men Should Would Be Lost Fate One Thing Latter Persevere Crippled

Book:The Way We Live Now

Source: The Way We Live Now

“But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.”

Ifs Should Mean Ends Used Charm Delightful

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.”

People Thinking Men Inspirational Should Enough Motivational Self Esteem Confidence Integrity Good Enough Body Image Not Good Enough Reckoning

Author:Anthony Trollope

“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.”

World Should Writing Hours Four Written Letters Twenties Angry Letter Writing

Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

“The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.”

World Should Writing Littles Seems Nature Sin Spring Satire Satirist Caustic

Book:An Autobiography: and Other Writings

Source: An Autobiography: and Other Writings

“When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.”