Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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