And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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