Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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Never 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.
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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.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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