One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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