Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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