Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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