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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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