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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIn 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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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.
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What is there that money will not do?
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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