The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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