There is such a difference between life and theory.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey 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.
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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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