Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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