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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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