Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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