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 TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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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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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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What is there that money will not do?
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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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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