One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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