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 TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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 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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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