I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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