It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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