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 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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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What is there that money will not do?
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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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 is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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