A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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