Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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