No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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 lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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