One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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 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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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