The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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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 husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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 is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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