Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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