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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat is there that money will not do?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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