What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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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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