When men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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