There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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