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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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