The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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