A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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