Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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What is there that money will not do?
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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