I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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