Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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 nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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