When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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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.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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