Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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