Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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