One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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What is there that money will not do?
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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