Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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