Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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