Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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