Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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