People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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