Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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