Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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