If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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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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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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What is there that money will not do?
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