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Quotes from Framley Parsonage — Anthony Trollope

1815–1882 England

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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

Framley Parsonage (1861)

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

Framley Parsonage (1861)

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.

Framley Parsonage (1861)

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.

Framley Parsonage (1861)

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

Framley Parsonage (1861)

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

Framley Parsonage (1861)

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.

Framley Parsonage (1861)

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 a set of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer teats his sheep and oxen — makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and a soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

Framley Parsonage (1861)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Trollope (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.