Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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