I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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