It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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