Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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