I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELate 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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