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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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They 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.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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