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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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