There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A 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.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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