Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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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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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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