It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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