There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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