If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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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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