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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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