Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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 sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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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.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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