In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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What is there that money will not do?
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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