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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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