I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPassionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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