If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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