When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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