The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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What is there that money will not do?
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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