One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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