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| Anthony Trollope
"I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.A little hypocrisy, a little sacrifice to the feelings of the world,
may be such a blessing.An ingenious, but sarcastic Yankee, when asked what he thought
of Western Australia, declared that it was the best country he had
ever seen to run through an hour-glass.
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoningAs to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.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.Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop?It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore,--Orley Farm.It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies--who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two--that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.Let me know if you need a guide…..I have Big Knife, Will Travel !
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the
perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.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. 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. Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is
no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected.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.They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which
divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being
correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. |
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