Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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