Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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