Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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