A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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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.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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