Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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