But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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.
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