And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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