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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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 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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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