Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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 hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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