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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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 think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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